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Music Organization Tips: What Are Those Songs
You have them don’t you? Sitting there on your computer. Music files that you have zero clue as to what
they actually are. You listen to the song and you know you know it, but you can not for the life of you
remember the title, artist, or album its from. These files are the scourge of your digital music collection. These files sit in a place forever ignored for one reason or another. No matter how often you sit down to
organize and try to figure out their titles, you only leave your computer discouraged and probably a little upset. Well, today we put an end to that. In the first article my Music Organization Tips series, we are going to work on trying to figure out what those songs on so that we can have all of our tracks identified. With all of our tracks identified we can effectively organize these files and folders of music. Continue reading
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links for 2007-02-21
Troyka – Real. Christian. Rock. (tags: music christianrock shoutcast)
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links for 2007-02-20
Complete Blogging Resource List For The Pro-Blogger (tags: blogging resources)
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Artist versus Album Artist
I seem to get a lot of hits from searches about the difference between the “Artist” and “Album Artist” tags in the Mp3 ID3 tagging specification that leads people to the second part of my “Building Your Digital Music Library” series. Instead of requiring people to read half of that article to find the answers they need, I figured I would do a whole post on it. Continue reading
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Weekly Reads 2007-02-16
This week’s weekly
reads, includes some
links you can’t live
without, getting things
done with Google,
replacing consumer
products on the
cheap, and much
more. Be sure to
scope out some of
these articles that I
found interesting. Continue reading
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Death of DRM?
There seems to be a
lot of talk about the
“death of DRM” or
digital rights. You
know, that technology
that only lets you play
songs bought from
certain stores on
certain devices? Over
the past couple of
weeks, technology
sites are writing
articles talking about
the possible removal
of digital rights
management software
and how the major
record labels are
looking at selling non-
DRMed music tracks.
The reason for this
line of thinking, has a
lot to do with an
essay written by
Apple’s own Steve
Jobs. Continue reading →